Improvement in horse hat-forks



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Leners Patent N 100,476, 1aed March 1, 1870; undated Februamy 2e, 1870.

- DIPROVBMENT- IN- HORSE HAY-FORKS.,

` The Schedule referred to izfthes'e Lettera Patentv and makmg par: of the' ame Be ,known that-I, GEoRGE F. WEYMou'rmof Dresden, in' the county 'of'V Lincoln, `and State of' Maine, have invented a newjand useful Machine' 'furthe Refmoval of HayLffromthe field, into a cart or rack, andv also for thefreinoval of said hayfrorn said cart or rack tothe place assigned to the saniein the barn, or other place lw here `hay isfusually stored, and have called and do designate said machine as the Maine Hay-Fork;` `andI do jhereby declare that the following is afull,

clear, andv exact descriptionof the construction vand operation ofthe same, reference being had to the an- 'nexed drawings making a partof this specification.

A Vis, the main shaft, ontwhch is a s1ide, B,- inclus'- -ing said shaft, and moving 'upward and downward, to

which are' attached the 4movable arlnsC, by nut and lo the lower part of the arms C are secured the unes D and E ofthe fork by means of al livet, movable on the annexed'drawing, 'are bent nearly. at rightangles.,

the rivet. Theseltines, as will he seen bv rei'ei'enee,to

` -and at the angle are secured to the main shatA'iat its lower part b y nuts 'and screws, also movable.

The tine E differs fron) the tine '1), Vinasmuch as at the attachment of the movable'arni G it is bent upward in a circular shape, on `the outward side of which are made notches to receive the end ofthe pawl F, which At the upper end ofthe main 'shaft A is a ring, H, to receive the block and pawlby which the fork is sussuspended.-

The double or bur-tin'ed .fo'k differs from the foregoing or single fork only lthat there aretwo additional tines,

D, and secured to the slide B, a`rm 0,'and main shaft 'Y A, as inthe single fork, and can be removed at'pleas-` ure, making again the single fork,

1n the operation of both themsingle and double fork,

it is'suspended by' the ring `H tfo the block and pawl,

and when used it is plunged downward into the hay, at the Sametime the tines open in 'opposite directions outwarihby the slide B `moving upward The hay is then prevented from slipping vfrom the fork bythe pawl-F, which. secures the loud-until pulled upon-hy the line. passing over the p'ulley'G,'and attached'to the. outward end -oi' the pawl F, when it is at once discharged by its own weight.

What 1 claim as my, nventio'n,a'nd desire- .to secure by Letters Patent, is,-

A horse hay-fork, having shaft A, slide B, and movable arm G, constructed and arranged as specified, for the purpose of' working the tines D and E, by the aid of pawl F, pulley G, and ring H, arranged as-speciiied. vIn testimony that I`claiin the above, I have `hereunto subscribedmy name in the presence of two \vit' messes, this 26th day of June, A. D. 1869.

l GEO. F; WEY-MOUTH.

Witnesses:

J. lW. SPAULDING, W. R. TBUB'A-LD. 

